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3c On your marks

1 Warm-up  Guess the answers to the questions below. Choose a or b. Then listen to
a radio quiz programme and check your answers.

1. At the Olympics, the 2. The modern marathon is 3. When did women irst
marathon is... the same distance as... run the marathon at
a. the irst race. a. Windsor Castle to White the Olympics?
b. the last race. City, London. a. 1944
b. Marathon to Athens, Greece. b. 1984
2 Read 
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A. Read the text quickly and match the paragraphs 1 3 with the headings below. There is one extra
heading which you do not need to use. Then listen and check your answers.

TOUGHEST EASIEST FASTEST SLOWEST
Keep on running!

Marathons have been popular since the first modern Olympics in
1896. At 42.195 km, the marathon is considered to be one of the
toughest running races an athlete can take part in. Today, most
of the world’s major cities such as New York, London, Athens and
Berlin hold marathons. For professional athletes marathons are
hard fought races but for others they have become fun events where
they try to complete the distance for charity or other reasons. Here
are a few marathon runners who hold records for different reasons.

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In 2003, Sir Ranulph Fiennes Lloyd Scott entered the 2003 London Eliud Kipchoge, a Kenyan athlete,
and Dr Mike Stroud achieved marathon but it took him 5 days, 8 holds the men’s marathon world
something truly incredible. hours, 29 minutes and 46 seconds to record. He broke the record in
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hours, 15 minutes and 25 seconds.
B. Read the text again. What do the numbers below refer to?
1. 2:15:25 2. 58 3. 7 4. 42 5. 2:01:39
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